These Republicans should understand rebukes are meant to correct them and bring them closer to God:
"The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth."

People who engage in this behavior (the retaliation) should be granted pardons

The good ending basically involves this yeah

I think we should require people to say "Gulf of Mexico" in order to be allowed to vote

I'm not trying to be a scold here but it's a sore subject for a lot of people from there that the introduction people have to their societies is Borat, it's kinda like if the only thing people knew about the American South was Deliverance

The social and political pressures of a Russia/Central Asia union would be unsustainable, but from a purely mercenary point of view this is an important part of the world strategically with proximity to China, the middle east, and south Asia, and immense mineral and petroleum resources

I get that we're being glib here but I would appreciate if you don't write about people's countries this way

Yeah but a lot of people might want to be Canada under the right circumstances

Of the five controlling powers of the 20th century in Poland (German Empire, AH, Russian Empire, Nazi Germany, USSR), Austria-Hungary seems like the least bad for its era

Jack Ruby's death and the deaths of his employees are more suspicious to me than the JFK/Oswald thing tbh

Millions of people call it "The Liberation War Against America", it's just that those people speak Vietnamese

Pete Hegseth's tattoo isn't on his forehead, but I've never been a stickler for the rules

Yeah the closest things to an apocalypse have shown that the rugged individualist types usually eat shit

Trump is probably RU/IL while JD Vance is RU/genocide of both IL and PA

100%

documentary in which the Minions reenact their past atrocities in Indonesia.

Like from the perspective of even the average Ethiopian today, Dinka people are giants

Oh so just like, those tall guys from South Sudan

I.e. "I like what Trump's doing but not how openly he's doing it"

That guy's profile picture suggests his politics immediately I think

Yeah but he's a gangster who benefits from at least nominal sovereignty even if he depends on Putin to keep his regime intact

In defense of the pro unionists, the last thirty years of Russian history (i.e. continually shooting off their own feet and also those of the neighbors) probably did not seem obvious or inevitable at the time

There are very few people who want to get the old gang back together besides the Russians themselves and Lukashenka sort of

It's also not a universally held position how far integration should go, besides a vague ambition of an "ever closer union"

The fact that Saudi Arabia, as an absolute monarchy, is an illegitimate state doesn't mean that the world's Muslims are under any obligation to stop praying towards Mecca

Immediately dismissing anyone who paid to be "verified" on twitter is an excellent heuristic

Alex Jones is truly one of the most evil people alive. He's lucky he lives in an era where the punishment for behavior like his is losing your website and not thumbscrews.

I for one welcome our new Kiwi overlords

Honestly forget I even said anything about Soviet agriculture because that topic has more low points than high points, I just mean tractors are good

They also did good stuff that literally every other semi competent country did, like rural electrification, agricultural reform*, mass vaccination

*Karakalpakstan was more damaged by Soviet agriculture than it would have been by a nuclear bomb